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There’s a couple reasons why I haven’t been posting much lately. ( Read more... )

Week 2 in German went by better. ( Read more... )

The Italians love their sciopero. Case in point: the full-day total public transportation strike this Wednesday. ( Read more... )

I’ve been having crazy strange anxiety all day, and possibly yesterday. ( Read more... )

These past two weeks has been rough ( Read more... )

On the plus side, my dreams are apparently on my side for once in my life. I keep having dreams where horrible things could happen but don’t. ( Read more... )

Despite the wonderful achievement of the fanmixes, I’ve yet to pimp them out to fanmix. I don’t even know why, I just haven’t gotten around to it. And I’m so proud of them too :/

Yesterday at the Goethe, instead of trying to finish Louisiana Hoodoo, I tried thinking out and plotting a bit the vague idea or world or something I’ve been having about The Last Wild Angel. ( Read more... )

I finally started screencapping the remake of Friday the 13th with Jared Padalecki in the hopes of eventually, someday, snarking at it. I've only done 10 minutes worth, but at least it's something.

I only just learnt that Andy Hallett’s died. This is quite upsetting and sad.

I finally watched Castle 3x13 - and by the way, where the hell were all my shows last week? And where’s Human Target this week? - and it was heavier on the Drama than the Squeeful Comedy but holy peaches yo, it was good. Then later with Mom we watched 2x13 on the television, which basically is the direct set-up for 3x13, and having the two fresh in my mind was wonderful. I was even quite tickled to notice that when Beckett’s taken off the case in 3x13 and leaves in a troubled huff, sliging her jacket over her shoulder as Castle shouts, “Beckett! Kate!”, the same exact thing happens in 2x13. Le squee. (I’m just praying it was deliberate and not a reusing of ideas.)

Links of the Day

Supernatural

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Doctor Who

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Human Target

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Other Fandom

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Multifandom

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Random

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* "Grace Cathedral Hill", The Decemberists

Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: Grace Cathedral Hill - The Decemberists

Random Points Along the Sickle Line:

I'm currently reading House Rules by Jodi Piccoult (now with podcast!), and I've reached the point where I'm just devouring the thing. It's a really interesting story about a teenage with Asperger's syndrome who's accused of murder. Although I'm rarely into crime novels, this one has a large dash of forensic science as the main character is fascinated by the subject and that aspect of it is one I can really get into. Curiously, I'm also following the law aspect of it quite well and even enjoying it, even though I'm not usually into the intricacies of courts and lawyers and judges and prosecuters and so on. I keep trying to figure out the whodunnit of the novel, much like the other book of hers I've read, Plain Truth. I'm almost at the Big Reveal part of the novel \o/

I've gotten all five of the fanmixes for Time We Saw a Miracle all set up except for the final file editing and posting. That was a lot of work, but I'm really happy with them.

There's four people from whom I'm waiting to hear from, and have been waiting for going on a month now. ( Read more... )

The week hasn't been fantastic. Nothing productive was actually achieved, drama was had, and German kicked my ass. However, on the plus side? There's people I can count on, and those people are my darlings. Except seschat. She's my squishy. ♥

In other news, I wrote a letter in German. I think I also broke the word order and a couple declinations. Help? Point and laugh?

( OMGWTFGERMAN )

Links of the Day:
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Lost: ( Read more... )
Doctor Who: ( Read more... )
Sherlock: ( Read more... )
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Multifandom: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )

* Leroy Brownlow

Current Mood: accomplished

...Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life.*

After much freaking out and "I cannae do this, Captain!" I managed to call the guy from FAO about volunteerships and internships. I stuttered a bit, shook a bit more, and finally managed to speak. He, on the other hand, sounded like the most wonderful person ever. He basically told me to go the usual route with the forms and stuff, but he told me about two other agencies that do similar work and also provided his email so I could forward him my application. So \o/ on that.

I then went and had lunch with Willy, and there was much squee and joy. It was pretty hilarious how I was high on caffeine and sociality and saying how I was miserable with the biggest grin on my face. Oh brain, you so weird!

And continuing our nightly tradition of anxiety dreams, or nightmares, I had another one! About having two buckets full of water and trying to move fish out of one, realizing that the big fish were eating the small ones so panicking even more about taking the fish out, then realizing that the big bucket I was holding the two buckets in has a mother-lovin' baby crocodile in it and then the bucket I'm holding is practically churning with little crocodiles and there's a tortoise over on the side.

I'm going to recover from today's madness - yes, it's 4 pm and the day can be over now, thanks - and watch Lost. Then I have to pull myself together enought write a few emails expressing my condolences because holy shit, y'all, violence in Nairobi to people I know. Willy just told me what happened and it's really, really bad.

Links of the Day:

Lost: ( Read more... )
Supernatural: ( Read more... )
Watchmen: ( Read more... )
Dollhouse: ( Read more... )
Random: ( Read more... )

* Management slogan, Ridcully-style (Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent)

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: The Longer Boats - Cat Stevens

It's a good thing I didn't write this entry earlier this evening, or it would be full of whining descriptions about how it's cold and icy and I didn't do anything but pick up my bike from the repair shop for its broken brakes**(It's Bicycle Repairman!) and fail to sell books to the second-hand shop (No! Not Bernard!) and realize that my knit elephant toy thing is in reality an abomination that could never hope to be a gift.

I mean, I' still going to post about it all, but there will be no moaning and whining, because of one single thing: time-zone compatibility.

seschat and I have been commenting back and forth on the previous post, spreading the lolz, all evening. I got her to watch Doctor Who's Blink and she got me to watch Shelter, which we watched at the same time and squeed over at each other via comments. It was epic and I am full of squee. ♥

Last night, I finally settled down to watch David Tennant and Patrick Stewart in Hamlet. That they made a film version of the play they performed is wonderful, although I cursed the world for it not being common-place for theatrical events to be filmed, because I'd have loved to see John Simm's last two plays, even if he was tiny and blurred.

Anyway, David Tennant is amazing. Like, holy-mother-of-gods amazing. He's my favorite Hamlet. He's funny and energetic and manic (in a disturbing Doctor-like way) and sprawls in ~~sexy, sexy~~ emotive ways and curls up in ~~sexy, sexy~~ sad foetal positions and is in a bondage-chair (I am not kidding!) and just, wow. I've never had so much fun watching a performance of Hamlet (Act 2, where he's calling Polonius a fishmonger! oh the hilarity!), maybe even Shakespeare in general. (Although Much Ado About Nothing is funny, even if Keanu Reeves totally sucked in the Branagh film version.) So that's why the Video of the Day is Tennant-as-Hamlet spouting off a soliloquey barefoot and in the most awesome shirt ever. (Also, Polonius is made of win.)

Video of the Day: David Tennant, Hamlet Soliloquy ( Embedded )

Links of the Day:

Supernatural: ( Read more... )

Current Mood: loved

Life: Had coffee with Willemijn today. It was awesome.

Nano: Am 633 words behind. This is less awesome. Chip doesn't like Icarus, obviously, and is being delightfully protective of Saunders and Agatha. Oh, puppy! You're no longer that sad, scared, twisted anti-social survivalist! How far you've come! Icarus is rather frustrating to write because he plays his cards so close to his chest he's got them swimming around in his stomach, but there's some fun involved in that as well. I've written part one of the Interview with an Angel, in which Chip throws a whole catalogue of questions at Icarus and one *death glare* confrontation (complete with crowbar, which is getting so much mileage) between the two. There's more questions to be done before the guys scamped off out of Kansas City. Progress, however!

( Excerpt )

31040 / 50000 words. 62% done!

Quotes of the Day: Bram Stroker, Dracula, here

There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; you are one of the lights.

Music of the Day: The Horror Version ( Read more... )

Links of the Day:

Misha Collins: ( Read more... )
Science, bitches! ( Read more... )
Random Livejournal: ( Read more... )
Random Interwebs: ( Read more... )

* overheard by

cleolinda, here

Current Mood: tired

Zumba today was awesome, although I was uncoordinated again for the bits where left arms and right feet have to do things together. I dripped sweat, and I'm not the sweating kind! I've failed in my google-fu to find my favorite song of the class.

Einstein yesterday was pretty brilliant. ( Sociality! )

My Childhood Squee on YouTube! ( Read more... )

Music For the Masses:

I've discovered Mademoiselle K. I love Jalouse (and the video's brilliant). I also think I should take Ca Me Vexe as my retroactive battle cry, back when I was feeling that way. Embedded below is a song about not knowing whether you're more an XX or an XY.

( Embedded Song: Maman XY )

Links of the Day: ( Read more... )

* Tom Stoppard

...and hope that it leads to more good work.*

Wowza, I've been social this week! ( Read more... )

I've got socks and a bathrobe on whilst in bed, so you can say it's getting a mite cold. But! I've rented White Noise 2: The Light because a) Saturday-night horror movie tradition and b) Nathan Fillion. I noticed the rental place has Carrie and The Exorcist, so that's the next two weeks covered.

So things are looking quite bright lately, despite the office computer still occasionally eating my work and my upcoming meeting on Tuesday with my supervisor. This week I went running 9in the damn rain) and swimming and my eating habits are still wonderfully under control (except today) so the scale is being progressively nicer to me. I also watched The Hangover (meh) and District 9 (too short clips for too long a documentary stint, amusing South African accents, crazy Nigerians, awesome aliens, oh good gods solidiers are horrible, how the hell do people understand the aliens, sweaty and desperate desk folk on the run are sorta sexy and, aww, itty bitty alien).

My Links of the ~~Day~~ Week list is huuuuge so I'm just going to leave that for slow work days. (Also, my computer's being an ass with the internet, saying it can't open the page sometimes, despite playing YouTube or opening pages on another tab just fine.)

Edit: Except I can't now because I never learn not to do Copy text B when I just Cut text A and haven't Pasted text A yet somewheres safe. *curses* I'll get most of them back.

Instead, I'm going to embedd two clips and tell a bit about why. ( Read more... )

* Jon Stewart

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: bed!

I'm in a rather aggravated mood today for three reasons. The first, simply, is that today's work was slow, frustrating and almost lost once again due to computer psychosis.

The second ( involved the swimming pool )

The third ( involves trying to put grievances on paper )

There's one last thing which hasn't so much been the cause of grievance today, per se, but has however caused me moments of upset. ( It involves an epiphany over a friendship. )

Quote of the Day: A Stupid Question by Peter Doherty via

literaryquotes

And so, progressively, her questions become more stupid. Hand in the fire stupid, eating broken glass stupid, forgetting that you don’t like pain stupid. Stupid then and stupid when, on a terribly, dreadly sunny day comes the most ridiculous, nauseous, frustratingly stupid question of them all.

On the wall high above the graffiti of all the things I could never bring myself to say, she turned to me just as the sun turned away and (thinking, in her stupidity, that it couldn’t see or hear us) asked: "Will you love me forever?"

"Of course not," I said.

Links of the Day:

ack_attack's True Blood reaction
Benny Knows Best, Comic

zqfans's Scream Awards 2009 (Fantasy, SF, Comics and Horror)

literaryquotes's The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult (I like the word evil.)

secretlytodream (Loki)'s SPN Fanvid Sometimes You Scream With Reason, And Sometimes Without

scc_johncameron's Thomas Dekker Interview

grrliz_icons's Tutorial: How To Clean Up An Image And Turn It Into A Decent Icon

dork_icons
News.BBC.co.uk's Fundraising appeal to save lions - A wildlife park near Doncaster has launched a fundraising campaign to bring 14 lions from a Romanian zoo.
Girl Genius Comic
Kills Me Dead: Movie Reviews
YouTube's Characters and Themes in Luc Besson Films Part 1 of 5

* Mil Millington, Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About

Current Mood: aggravated
Current Location: bed!

Today was alright for the most part, except the bit where I lost the last hour of work, which involved painstakingly going through all the the lion videos and screencapping a particular lioness. All those wonderful photos I'd copy-pasted to her ID sheet are lost and must be redone. I also lost a table I'd worked out, but that's easy to redo. Although the file ate all the tables in the document, I'm not worried because I save the document in three different places. It's the second or third time the university computer does this to me, flailing about claiming errors in saving or corruption of files or changing everything to squares and squiggles.

The good thing is that I'd intended to stop work early anyway (I wouldn't have been able to redo all that again right after losing it) because I had to go register for an international student dinner on Wednesday. (Socilizing, here I come!) Funnily enough, they tell you the location only when you sign up and pay, and the (very cute) guy who signed me up literally whispered the location. Hi-larious.

I then hung out at a cafe waiting for Anna, a classmate from my winter's Science-Based Business course, to show up. Socializing! We talked for an hour about her new job which she's starting in October (in a bank! in London!) and other related things.

Word Meme via

chaosvizier: ( Verbosity! )

Links of the Day:

leonidaslion's Bright Lights of Disturbia, part 31 (Sam/Dean)

henrygalelovers's ABC's Commericals - Hi-larious! Losties, Frasier, Friends, they're all living together!
Doctor Who Audiobook read by Tennant
Hubpages: Screencapping with VLC
Forum: Screencapping with VLC
The Book With No Name by Annonymous
Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter “E” by Ernest Vincent Wright
A Void by Georges Perec

* Anon. or uncredited

Current Mood: cold
Current Location: bed!

I had the dreaded meeting with my supervisor yesterday morning. Prior to it, I was feeling rather good at my progress (Introduction and Materials and Methods achieved) and wasn't at all worried about the meeting. This status, as they say, did not remain quo.

We exchanged pleasantries and he recounted his latest adventures in the field. He told me about our nomadic lion and how he seems to have taken over a pride**. (My boy's all grown up!) He extended greetings and well-wishes from people I worked with. So far, so good.

But then, of course, the usual happened. ( Read more... )

Once home, I had a pathetic excuse for lunch, version 2 (the non-titchy snack kind) and watched True Blood. For all the action, I didn't feel all that much happened, although somewhere along the way Jason went to the Wizard of Oz and got himself a damn fine brain. D'aww. Also, emo looks good on Eric whilst vomit doesn't look so good on Bill.

I called mom for a bit and we talked about the meeting and about "improving my standard of living" by adding activities to it (e.g. joining another dance class, this time Axé) and by reaching out to friends and acquaintances so they don't forget I exist and hopefully hang out with me. I admit I cried quite a bit (which was a long-time coming, after the meeting, and continued to threaten with a repeat performance throughout the evening) but mom's been quite nice recently. She actually said she would always support me, which still brings me to near-tears. (Why, hello there.)

Then, sniffling, I went with a Google map in my hand to the swimming pool I'd walked to the previous Saturday. ( Read more... )

I got home at nine-thirty, having made only one wrong turn, showered and crawled into bed with a vitamin water at 10 pm, feeling like my lung capacity had just grown by a couple litres. A little dose of Jon Stewart (March 11, I think) and then blissful sleep. The next morning involved half a dozen snooze-button slaps, but it's been going well so far. (Except, of course, for the long stretch were I wrote this.)

I called Willemijn today, and we exchanged undying love and affection, after which she promised to squeeze me in her busy schedule over the weekend and we talked about our respective boys. Turns out her mom donated her copious air miles so that Willy's beau could fly over in December, which is all rather sweet. (Six-hour-later update: Turns out she's too busy to see me this weekend. Just have to wait it out until she can, which sucks, because I really wanted to talk with her.]

I also spoke with Elisa over the weekend, and we've promised to go for Dim Sum and Thai sometime, although no concrete plans were made. *shrug* Have to try harder with this one. *promises to (force self) to call*

I've also neglected to report back on what I thought about Desperation. Frankly? Awesome. It was brilliant (with the exception of utterly fake battles with stuffed "I swear I'm a real live vicious vulture!" feather bags). Ron Perlman was perfect as the sheriff, and I absolutely adored Shane Haboucha as David Carver (which is such a biblically-appropriate name for a prayer-boy such as he). Every scene was taken straight from the book down to the last detail and it was wonderful recogniting and remembering it all. It wasn't all gore-gore-gore at all, just suspense for the most part. In all, very pleased. For other comments, I'll let this well-written review speak for me: For anyone who read the book before seeing the movie.

Right now, which is about six hours after I wrote all of the above, I've just finished copy-pasting some email correspondence to a document, so's I could have it all in one place and try to wrap my head around it. Things are a touch complicated at the moment.

Links of the Day:

blizzardcake's must watch for it's cuteness overload factor - 2PM has this show where they invite guests over and play a sort of match-making game

qthewetsprocket's i believe this is what you call a 'tag-team ukulele relay quadrille'

redscharlach's Fannish Top Fives meme

jemmalynette's Pretty Eyes Picspam

binsybaby's Mermaid Comic

kjcharmed's SPN Fanvid Crazy (Bloopers)

millylicious's SPN Fanvid No Heaven

ohnotheydidt's Harry Potter Fanfic Writer Gets Movie for City Of Bones/Ashes/Glass Series

extd_grb_injoke, of

get_medieval fame

dollhousestills
New Scientist: Kenya's Lions Could Vanish Within 10 Years
Build Your Own 5 m Dome!

* Diane Schoemperlen, Our Lady of the Lost and Found
** Out of all the hundreds of things I could be missing from Amboseli, not being there to see this is the one thing that punches me in the gut.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Location: bed!

The Life of the Sickle, condensed version:

- Went to New York City. Parents and I stayed in Jersey City, which failed to live up to it's state's noteriety. The trip was between Friday and Monday, between which we stuffed trips to Liberty Island, Washington Square, Wall Street, Brooklyn Bridge, Madison Avenue, and so on. We also stuffed ourselves with delicious pizza at Lombardi's. Failure to espy Jon Stewart (and carry out The Fangirling to End All Fangirling).

- Went to Montreal. We stayed overnight only, leaving Wednesday afternoon after a traditional stuffing at the Indian restuarant Taj. Met up with Kathleen (♥) and talked for hours. Wandered around the Vieux Port, McGill Campus (♥) and Mont Royal. Acquired an Hour and squeed over the Neil Gaiman cover (although cursed that he'd actually been in Montreal for some SF convention).

- Returned to Toronto. Riffled through and threw out a couple boxes of school notes and knick-knacks. Went for a bra fitting and was recommended to go to a specialist for possible scoliosis (I'm deformed!). Took glasses in for minor fitting, got them ruined, so turned them in for new lenses and am now using glasses with a four-year-old prescription. Got the very good (and cute) Paulo to spruce me up with highlights at Hair.fx. Got email from boy; emotional reaction unknown apart from general flailing.

- Currently. Packing for 11 pm trip back to the Netherlands. Cue stress over packing, renewing work (hopefully more forest and less trees in sight), meeting with Supervisor, rigorous exercise routine (utterly necessary) and so forth.

Links of the Day:
Jon Stewart Quotes

* Jon Stewart

Current Mood: stressed
Current Location: desk!
Current Music: Crash - Dave Matthew's Band

Today I:

a) Cleaned my room (in preparation for Willy's visit tomorrow)
b) Skyped with Robert (thrice!)
c) Correctly identified a lion from Rob's photo (booya!)

In sum, a good day. There was a lot of squee and misty eyes. Now, if only I had some new episodes to watch...

Book Meme! via

celestineangel

According to the BBC, the average person has only read about 6 of these books. ( Read more... )

Links of the Day:

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* Arnorld Lobel

Current Mood: happy
Current Location: desk!

"What the fuck" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future. *

I feel like I've been leaving this LJ a bit on the side - not that I'm absolutely loaded with activities. In light of this (and because I feel like writing and am also avoiding work like the plague), have some summaries:

( I talk about my work. )

( I talk about my mother... )

( ...and my plans for the summer. (Ooh! Rhyme!) )

( I talk about my boyfriend. )

( I talk about random shite. )

Links of the Day:

amplificathon's Audiofic: Back Country Roadmap by

astolat, read by

rhea314

ontd_political's Gay senior lives less openly in care facility - \o/ People's reactions are lovely! (via

rex_dart

cleolinda's Everything I can think to say about Michael Jackson

robinalaska's Meta of TV shows watched

tehopheliac's Audoific: Where All Paths Lead by

tracy_loo_who, read by

tehopheliac
How To's Basic podcasting software and Audacity, the audio editing program, tutorial

* Miles, Risky Business
** Reconsidering marriage and kids? Me? Who'da thunk.

Current Mood: melancholy
Current Location: desk!
Current Music: The Music - David Usher

I need to rant about something and work it through. ( It's my damn soapbox. )

TL;DR? Short Version:

****

Links of the Day:

videorama

ursulav is on a Marvel comic! (Or at least her pear is.)

morgandawn's poll and discussion about the distribution of Fanvids on DVDs
Buffy vs. Edward: Twilight Remixed
The McGill Daily Archives (♥) and an old Literary Supplement (With Disappearing, which I love.)
Diane Schoemperlen interview for Our Lady of the Lost and Found
100 Love Poems
Jon Stewart's discussions with Mike Huckabee about gay marriage and abortion are really interesting. Jon kicks ass! \o/
Jack Handey quotes
Mitch Hedberg quotes

* Demetri Martin, "If"
** Why do people do that? Why?!?
*** Translation: black-mailed by a friend. How lovely.
**** First icon by

sickle_icons, second by

iconomicon

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Location: bed!

...the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.*

I have nothing to say. I'm sorry. It's just been one of those days where you only do one activity for the whole day.

My activity? Organizing photographs. My wrist hurst like a bitch, and I should techinically work for another hour, but my eyes are going to pop out and crawl under the desk in a moment, sqealing in that obnoxiously high pitch that eyes do when clamoring for an activist to defend them from the horrible torture.

Elisa left this morning. Dim sum yesterday was delicious and filling and incredibly cheap. \o/

I'm not going to the gym today (fuck that shit) but apart from that I don't know how I'm going to celebrate the start of the weekend. I have shitty rose wine at home (I don't drink rose, but Elisa does, and we'd been planning on meeting up more often, but...yeah). I haven't watched Zachary Quinto strut his mini-eyebrows on Star Trek but the showing at the Hague is at 10 pm. (And remember, intermissions are eeeevil and therefore Leiden is not an option.)

Thought about biking to Noordwijk this weekend, which is quite trip. But I could use the exercise and people say it's a nice trip and I don't know what else to do. MIght see Willy this weekend, but that wasn't set in stone and she's really busy and there's no plans yet so shite.

Sorry for being such a boring and whiney read, but, well, life's kind of boring and whine-inducing at the moment.

In conclusion: Sad puppy is I.

Links of the Day:

riverbella reads

paxlux's SPN Fanfic: At Night in the Desert, the Land Breathes and it Sounds Like Music

lucyluo's watercolours, including her future self at age 100.

heroprotagonist's Contest: Draw yourself at age 100
Jones' Celtic Encyclopedia: The Celtic Tree Calendar

* Ralph W. Sockman

Current Mood: crappy
Current Location: desk!
Current Music: Left and Leaving - The Weakerthans

Spent the morning struggling with the ArcGIS part of the report. Basically, what that means for today is that I spent all my time staring at the manual a professor made (for a course they held in Nairobi, which I always thought I could so have used attending).

The manual is super clear for the first few pages, saying how to copy-paste, even, and then *poof* suddenly I'm staring at windows thingking, "How the fuck did you get there? What button?!?" Also, I was thoroughly stumped by Notepad, couldn't import data, then had to struggle with Textpad fpor a while. (Oh gods, "struggle with textpad"- makes me sound so computer illiterate. Look, Ctrl-F wasn't working, ok?!?)

I even sent a "Halp!" email to the professor, and he kindly came over as soon as he got it. Trouble is, his suggestion was to do it all over again. Then he spent some time just reading the manual at me, beccause that makes things so clear. Look, I've done that step already! Yes, I can read. But no, he's nice and all that jazz. I just didn't understand half of what he was saying. Like the manual, he tends to over explain simple concepts and then just leap over complicated things. "Oh, right, so of course I can't rename tables because then that would undo the queries - wait, what?"

So that made me feel like a wibble. ( There's more where that came from. )

Links of the Day:
Chinese Characters Dictionary
Chinese-English Dictionary
Chinese Characters and Culture

* Eddie Izzard, "Glorious"
** Significant Other, I think is the PC term. I just call him "my boy" (amongst other things).

Current Mood: sad
Current Location: desk!
Current Music: Souring - David Usher

We're on Day 2 of Student Life (i.e. Sickle's working on her report, yays!). We're also starting Week 2 of Back In Holland (a.k.a. I Miss My Boy!). Not so much with the yay.

And I've been coughing so much and so often my ribs are bloody tired and sore.

Don't really know what to say, guys. I'm slowly adapting to life back in Holland (or life back as the sucky version of me, which...sucks).

Apparently I can only write about my day once. As in, if I send a detailed email about my days, I can't post about it, or write in my diary about it. "It's been written already!", my head says. "Don't make me go over it all over again!"

I'm sorry to say I haven't started working on the

amboseli blog - and my brother had the audacity to say that no one'd care to read it now that I'm back in Holland. Jerk. ...oh gods I hope he's wrong. But! I'm gonna.

In other news...it's still cold in the university's computer labs. Grr. Tomorrow have meeting with supervisor (ye gods save me!).

And oh yeah, Elisa's bloody leaving for Japan in less than two weeks!!!. Sucky! Very sucky! I haven't seen her since end of November! Selfishly, also, once she leaves I'll be pretty much alone in Leiden. Am very good friends with Willemijn (research buddy), but she's a) in Amsterdam and b) has a social group of her own. So yay.

...I am so behind on LJ, it's ridiculous. I'm only caught up on

metaquotes and

lienne. Mah priorities, let me show you them!

Television-wise, there's Jon Stewart, Lost, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Heroes, Ashes to Ashes and Supernatural to catch up on. House and Bones are a bonus. CSI if I have loooaaaads of time. Torchwood if it's there. Wowza. I've been gone a while.

Ah, screw it. It's 5 o'clock, I'm going home. Lunch and Lost, here I come!

* Joan Didion

Current Mood: sore
Current Location: computer lab!
Current Music: So Far Down - David Usher

Went out yesterday to Einsteins, came back late, went to sleep even later (like, 4 am late) and woke up early. (Why?!?) I have a (bad, evil, unrepentant) cold, so I've spent the morning in bed feeling rather icky. Have managed to organize room a tad more, and have uploaded some photos on facebook for January. Nowhere near done on that front, and writing entries about it all will have to wait until my brain doesn't feel like hot mushy porridge.

Going to watch Hot Fuzz with Elisa later. We were planning on doing Angels and Demons (we're saving Star Trek for when Laura's free) at the Hague, with dim sum dinner (yes please!) but, as mentioned, am doing somewhat poorly. (We both refuse to watch films in Leiden because a) shitty screens and b) omgwtfintermission?!)

On the plus side, mandarins!

* Mark Sanchez

Current Mood: sick
Current Location: desk!

...to fulfill her kinky and twisted fantasies.*

I just realized that yesterday I watched Doctor Who whilst lying behind the sofa. XD

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We went to the park today and my brother taught me to how drive (!!!) in the parking lot. !!! He's a damn fine teacher. I spent over an hour, maybe an hour and a half, driving around the parking lot, turning corners, parking, going in reverse... XD First time at the wheel, as tense as a live wire** (Evidence of said event lacking ebcause my dad confused the ON and OFF buttons on my new (!!!) videocamera, so there's lots of shots of his feet and a blurred one of the car, then his feet.)

Brother's also shared his music and gotten me an audio lesson thing on Kiswahili. \o/

(And yet, I freak out. Of course. The Globo sapiens returns home after two decades and freaks the fuck out.)

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Spoke to

katarinagram a bit and finally (finally) called Kit-kat, although we didn't get to talk much and will rectify later today. And yesterday I hung out with

lienne and

aplysia_06 but, alas, had to leave before the gods-awesome pie was consumed.

I'd like to point out that I'm totally sucking at being social or even sociable. I've utterly failed to send postcards or call people (so sorry, Kit-kat) or successfully make idle conversation (except with Jasmina in Chicago).

I'm a horrible person when at my folks. I'm a horrible person at my folks.

I also can't get over how unbelievably thick I was when discussing What is and What Should Never Be with

lienne. I'm usually quicker on the uptake. Sorry.

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There's loads of things I've been meaning to write about, even composing posts in my head (some in script format - it was epic). But, as you can see, there's zip. Mainly because while I do nothing when at my folks, there's a lot of time spent doing said nothing and whole schedules around which various nothings must be done. And so I have done, as mentioned, nothing.

Grandiose plans of fanfiction writing, fanvid editing, lab book compiling, photoshop recovering, book reading... They've all died horrible, horrible lingering deaths of which they are still in the throes of.

***
LJ Poll: The Puppetmaster Gnomes Tell Sickle What To Do ( Read more... )

* After The Tone, Part 4 by

kashmir1
** Crack metaphor? Ftw!

Current Mood: indescribable
Current Location: Toronto
Current Music: When I Saw Her Standing There - Jensen Ackles (yes you read that right!)

I'm all packed \o/ Well, I was all packed by 7, but there was hanging out with Elisa** until 11 pm. I've taken ages to pack the final itty bitty details, which is why it's 2 am. This time tomorrow, whichever time zone you look at it, I'll be in T.O. Wee!

Still sick. Tuberculosis vaccine is showing signs of impending infection, as predicted by the doctors as the usual route the vaccine takes. I'm drawing up a lack of yay.

*

with_a_kay's post title
** Supernatural marathon, with much lusting after all three Winchesters.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: bed!
Current Music: Protect Me From What I Want - Placebo

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Are you feeling better now?*

There are times when silence has the loudest voice*

When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators...*

One man picked out of ten thousand.*

I sparkle; we're all good.*

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.*

You just have to keep trying to do good work*

Immediately and with huge, reverberating, chill clarity*

No words are necessary*

Not everything is a sign.*

No, I'm not going to be your monkey.*

My pile of books is a mile high.*

Every now and then say, "What the fuck."*

I like people, for a little while.*

Whatever the right hand findeth to do*

What are the 2093 problems I skipped to get to this one?*

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking...*

It's very good citrus land.*

I just wanted to make sure some rabid fan girl didn’t kidnap him...*

I think we all saw this coming.*

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